Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:21:33 -0400 From: Greg Childers <gchil0@pop.uky.edu> To: Caleb Walker <cwalker@powercomenergy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and @home Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000628141912.009516b0@pop.uky.edu> In-Reply-To: <395A3F49.6E6303A5@powercomenergy.com>
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Hi, Take a look at http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.html. Hopefully that'll get you going. Greg At 11:09 AM 6/28/00 -0700, you wrote: >I am wondering if there are anyone out there that has FreeBSD connected >to a @home account. > >I am having problems getting my fbsd box to connect to the @home >network. I was finally able to get an address from the @home dhcp >address only after editing the dhclient.conf file to specify that I send >the DHCP server my hostname that @home gives me. I suppose this is the >method of making sure that only @home users are using @home. So I got >the address from the dhcp server but i can not go anywhere, I can not >ping anything accept myself. >I am wondering if there is something that needs to continually >broadcasted out that I am this user that they specify that I use. Or >maybe there is another problem that I am not seeing. > >I look at the manual and for M$ machines they put the host name in the >netbios namespace(identifaction tab of the network properties). I look >at the MAC config and put this name in the DHCP client id box. In mac >machines 8.1 and before they use a static address and put that host name >behind the domain name in a fqdn looking name space in the boxes >lableled Implicit Search Path:... In the starting domain name they put >that fqdn and in the ending domain name they leave blank, In the >additional search domains they enter that fqdn again. > >With all of this description, can anyone tell me what is going on here >or what I can do to resolve this problem with FreeBSD and @home? > >Thanks alot in advance, >Caleb Walker > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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